You take after your father: Paternal grit and young adult self-employment

Pankaj C. Patel, Marcus T. Wolfe and Ryan C. Bailey

Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 2023, vol. 19, issue C

Abstract: Considerable scholarly attention has been given to the influence parents have on the self-employment of their children. We further investigate this relationship by examining whether paternal grit, via a young adult's grit, could influence young adult self-employment. Using a sample of 1504 participants from the Cultural Pathways to Economic Self-Sufficiency and Entrepreneurship (CUPESSE) survey, our findings indicate that paternal grit is positively associated with young adult grit, and that paternal grit has a positive indirect relationship with young adult self-employment, as mediated by young adult grit. Our study has important implications to ongoing conversations regarding the generational transmission aspects of self-employment, as well as the influence that grit can have on the entrepreneurial process.

Keywords: Generational transmission; Grit; Self-employment; Young adults (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jbvi.2023.e00378

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